THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES: Selections from The Frank Moore Archive Project

THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES:

Selections from the Frank Moore Archive Project

Curated for Visual AIDS by Patrick Webb 

November 29 - December 23, 2011 
Reception: Tuesday, November 29 from 6-8 PM 

Artists Talk: Thursday, December 15 from 6-8 PM

The Painting Center
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NYC

Curated by Patrick Webb for Visual AIDS
Bradford Branch, Jerry Frost, Michael Golden, Frank Holliday, Martin Klug, Jonathan Leiter, Michael Lownie, Ricardo Morin, Joseph Stabilito, Pete Wyman, and Laurence Young.

The Sword of Damocles: Selections from the Frank Moore Archive presents a range of work from twelve mid-career artists, who are also long-term survivors living with HIV. As we mark 30 years of AIDS, The Sword of Damocles contemplates the pandemic as seen through the transformation of these artists’ work over time.  Watch the NY1 coverage here.

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Top: Patrick Web, Lamenations of Punchinello / By Punchinello's Bed, 1992

Bottom:  Jonathan Leiter, In The Bedroom #2 (Humpty Dumpty), 2002-05